Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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My Articles on Painting for Answers.com
As an adjunct to their long-established model of direct questions and answers, Answers.com has launched a new “Category Expert Writer” program, in which writers with expertise in various areas contribute an ongoing series of short, informative articles in their field. (As far as I know, they are still expanding the program. The information on applying…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tiepolo's Joseph and Pharaoh
Joseph Receiving Pharaoh’s Ring, Giambattista Tiepolo (Giovanni Battista Tiepolo) On Google Art Project. Also downloadable high-res from Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Dulwich Picture Gallery.
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Vermeer's Young Woman Seated at a Virginal on view at Philadelphia Museum of Art
Museum goers here in Philadelphia will have a rare opportunity to see a Vermeer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as the painting Young Woman Seated at a Virginal, along with work by Frans Hals and Rembrandt pupil Gerbrand van den Eeckhout will be on loan from the Leiden Collection until March, 2014. Those of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Pissarro poplars
Autumn Poplars, Eragny; Camille Pissarro On Google Art Project. Also high-res downloadable on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Denver Art Museum.
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Nelson Shanks' Four Justices
Noted portrait painter Nelson Shanks, who I have written about previously, has recently completed a life size group portrait of four female justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. The painting, which is titled Four Justices (no, not The Supremes — grin) will hang in the National Portrait Gallery in D.C. for three years before going…
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Meindert Hobbema
Dutch landscape painter Meindert Hobbema was a student and apprentice of Jacob van Ruisdael, and initially painted very much in the style of the older master. There are few records and not much written about Hobbema. He apparently was not very successful in his own time. Records indicate that he worked as a wine gauger…